About

HOCA Foundation presented representational pieces from JR’s most notable series – starting from his photographs taken in the Parisian suburbs in 2004, just before the riots of 2005. Beginning his artistic career at the age of 17, JR happened upon a camera on the Paris subway and began pasting portraits in the eastern suburbs of Paris, Montfermeil, Les Bosquets. These images confronted the residents with their own caricatures and questioned the social and media representation of a specific generation raised on the outskirts of the city. When the riots shook in 2005, JR reacted to the one-sided …